[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 57 (Friday, March 23, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17078-17079]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7085]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Health Resources and Services Administration


Agency Information Collection Activities: Proposed Collection: 
Comment Request

    In compliance with the requirement for opportunity for public 
comment on proposed data collection projects (section 3506(c)(2)(A) of 
Title 44, United States Code, as amended by the Paperwork Reduction Act 
of 1995, Pub. L. 104-13), the Health Resources and Services 
Administration (HRSA) publishes periodic summaries of proposed projects 
being developed for submission to the Office of Management and Budget 
(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. To request more 
information on the proposed project or to obtain a copy of the data 
collection plans and draft instruments, email [email protected] or 
call the HRSA Reports Clearance Officer at (301) 443-1984.
    Comments are invited on: (a) The proposed collection of information 
for the proper performance of the functions of the Agency; (b) the 
accuracy of the Agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed 
collection of information; (c) ways to enhance the quality, utility, 
and clarity of the information to be collected; and (d) ways to 
minimize the burden of the collection of information on respondents, 
including through the use of automated collection techniques or other 
forms of information technology.

Proposed Project: Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease 
Prevention Demonstration Program (OMB No. 0915-0346)--[Revision]

    This is a revision to a data collection previously approved for the 
Patient Navigator Outreach and Chronic Disease Prevention Demonstration 
Program (PNDP). Authorized under section 340A of the Public Health 
Service Act, as amended by Section 3510 of the Patient Protection and 
Affordable Care Act,

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PNDP supports the development and operation of projects to provide 
patient navigator services to improve health outcomes for individuals 
with cancer and other chronic diseases, with a specific emphasis on 
health disparities populations. Award recipients are to use grant funds 
to recruit, assign, train, and employ patient navigators who have 
direct knowledge of the communities they serve in order to facilitate 
the care of those who are at risk for or who have cancer or other 
chronic diseases, including conducting outreach to health disparities 
populations.
    As authorized by the statute, an evaluation of the outcomes of the 
program must be submitted to Congress. The purpose of these data 
collection instruments, including navigated patient data intake, VR-12 
health status, patient navigator survey, patient navigator encounter/
tracking log, patient medical record and clinic data, clinic rates 
(baseline measures), quarterly reports, and focus group discussion 
guides is to provide data to inform and support the Report to Congress 
for: the quantitative analysis of baseline and benchmark measures; 
aggregate information about the patients served and program activities; 
and recommendations on whether patient navigator programs could be used 
to improve patient outcomes in other public health areas.
    A single instrument, the Client Opinion Form, has been added to 
this collection, resulting in an increase of 579.2 burden hours.
    The annual estimate of burden is as follows:

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                                      Number of    Responses per       Total         Hours per     Total burden
               Form                  respondents     respondent      responses       response          hours
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Navigated Patient Data Intake               4,827            1.0        4,827.00            0.50        2,413.50
 Form............................
VR-12 Health Status Form.........           4,827            2.0        9,654.00            0.12        1,158.50
Client Opinion Form..............           4,827            1.0        4,827.00            0.12          579.24
    SubTotal--Patient Burden.....           4,827  .............  ..............  ..............        4,151.22
Patient Navigator Survey.........              46            1.0           46.00            0.20            9.20
Patient Navigator Encounter/                   46          629.6       28,961.60            0.25        7,240.40
 Target Services Log.............
Patient Navigator Focus Group....              46            1.0           46.00            1.00           46.00
    SubTotal--Patient Navigator                46  .............  ..............  ..............        7,295.60
     Burden......................
Patient Medical Record and Clinic              10          482.7        4,827.00            0.17          820.59
 Data............................
Annual Clinic-Wide Clinical                     5            1.0            5.00            8.00           40.00
 Performance Measures Report.....
Patient Navigator Cultural                     10            4.6           46.00            1.17           53.82
 Competency Checklist............
Patient Navigator/Health System                50            1.0           50.00            1.00           50.00
 Administrator Focus Group.......
Grantee Health Care Provider                   30            1.0           30.00            1.00           30.00
 Focus Group.....................
Social Service Provider Focus                  50            1.0           50.00            1.00           50.00
 Group...........................
Quarterly Report.................              10            4.0           40.00            1.00           40.00
    SubTotal--Grantee Burden.....             165  .............  ..............  ..............         1084.41
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    Totals.......................           5,038  .............       53,409.60  ..............       12,531.23
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Email comments to [email protected] or mail the HRSA Reports Clearance 
Officer, Room 10-33, Parklawn Building, 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, 
MD 20857. Written comments should be received within 60 days of this 
notice.

    Dated: March 16, 2012.
Reva Harris,
Acting Director, Division of Policy and Information Coordination.
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